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Oldsmar council advises against reallocating FEMA hazard-mitigation funds to staterun Elevate Florida program
Summary
After two hours of discussion, the Oldsmar City Council gave its representative to the county working group direction to oppose reallocation of Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) funds to the state-run Elevate Florida residential mitigation program and to retain funds for locally prioritized infrastructure mitigation projects.
The Oldsmar City Council on April 1 advised its voting representative to the Pinellas County Local Mitigation Strategy (LMS) work group to recommend retaining the county'allocated Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) funds for local infrastructure projects rather than reallocating a portion to the state-run Elevate Florida residential mitigation program.
Council consensus came after a lengthy staff presentation and more than an hour of council discussion about trade-offs between funding homeowner elevation projects through Elevate Florida and preserving federally eligible infrastructure mitigation projects in Oldsmar.
City Manager (unnamed) told the council that Pinellas County is expected to receive about $416 million in HMGP funds allocated for long-term mitigation after the recent hurricanes and that the state asked counties whether some of those funds…
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